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10 Dec 2016 3:15:24am

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is right that 'All knowledge is a risk'.

Even agnostics take a position to live their lives - they have to value some information over others, some behaviour over others, some relationships over others and so on. Alison is saying that intellectually, atheism is prima facie straight forward (simple), and living it involves commitment to a proposition (which she calls submission, which is literally what Islam means. I will defend that as far as I can, but I don't know if I can be convincing).

You have taken the time to defend atheism from this attack with the classic 'I don't have a position, YOU have a position!' defence. You show thereby that you are currently committed to a position. It is one of seeking low risk knowledge and one of admirable simplicity, but trying to claim it is not a position is peculiar.

Of course, I am committed too, so is everyone who isn't at this moment rethinking their commitments.